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Edward Monovich’s drawings reinterpret idyllic scenes from popular stories, television, and advertising. In mainstream America, concepts such as joy, discovery and exhilaration are cooped by marketing strategies. Experience becomes imprisoned by products, stereotypes and labels. Some Children are marked so indelibly, they cannot venture forth without donning their favourite logo and prefabricated identity. Brands become both filter and lens for one’s point of view. This propagates a mesmerizing cycle of fashion and consumption and an artificial sense of progress. His drawings infiltrate this cycle and attempt to excise experience from commercial shackles.

Takashi Murakami
was born in Tokyo and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. One of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists, his work ranges from cartoony paintings and prints, to quasi-minimalist sculptures such as Inochi, to giant inflatable balloons, to performance events to factory-produced watches and T-shirts. Many know Takashi Murakami for making a $2.6 million diamond-encrusted coup with Pharrell Williams and producing album covers for Kanye West.

Paula Rego is a prolific painter and printmaker, and in earlier years was also a producer of collage work. Her most well known depictions of folk tales and images of young girls, made largely since 1990, seem to bring together the methods of painting and printmaking with an emphasis on strong and clearly drawn forms, in contrast to Rego’s earlier more lose style paintings. Some of Paula Rego’s most well known artworks include The Dance, The Family and The Maids.
Jamie Reid is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists and is infamous for his acerbic brand of visual anarchy. Jamie Reid’s signature newspaper-cutting graphics have become synonymous with the spirit of British punk rock music, having appeared on seminal Sex Pistols’ punk records of the 1970s including Never Mind the Bollocks, Anarchy in the UK, Union Jack, God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant.

Barry Reigate’s works enshrine the most basic instincts of desire and horror. Reflective of the aggression and violence of working class stereotype, Reigate adopts a brash, ‘no-apologies’ attitude towards the levelling of cultural hierarchy. Using loaded signifiers, such as Mickey Mouse minstrels and the hedonistic decadence of 80s Memphis design, his work ironically revives the ethos of ‘primitivism’ and the edgy indulgence of the neo-geo period to construct darkly humorous parodies of today’s attitudes towards commodity, fetish, and cultural taboo.
William Tillyer‘s work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970. Admired by fellow artists and collectors, it has mystified critics, even those eager to praise him. Why does his work keep changing? Why does each new phase seem to contradict and undermine the last? Why doesn’t he establish a brand image and stick by it? Much of his art is about the beauty of the world, of landscapes, still life and buildings; it can also be sublimely beautiful in its use of colour, brushstrokes and pictorial constructions, or dramatic in its size and contrasts. His thoughts are about how art communicates as much as what.
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Jack Vettriano OBE, often referred to as the ‘people’s painter’, is famous for his nostalgic, sentimental and mysterious paintings including The Singing Butler which sold at Sotheby’s in 2004 for £750,000. Jack Vettriano was born in Fife, Scotland, was the youngest of two children and left school at sixteen in order to pursue a career as a mining engineer. He discovered painting accidentally, as he received a set of watercolours from a girlfriend as a twenty first birthday present. Consequently, he decided to teach himself how to paint by studying and copying paintings from well known artists, enabling him to discover his own sense of style.

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Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Matt Straub reveals his deep nostalgia for the American West in his work. He has hitch-hiked across most of the West and hopped a few freight trains. Featured in Straub’s painting are the classic Western iconography images of cowboys, cowgirls, guns and horses. Straub’s paintings echo the period of transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and reference Hollywood Westerns as well as the comics and pulps of the 1940s-50s. The paintings’ graphic and illustrative narratives combine camp and caricatures inspired by Western pulp writers and illustrators, while varied surfaces resonate with influences from artists such as Willem De Kooning, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden.

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Edward Monovich’s drawings reinterpret idyllic scenes from popular stories, television, and advertising. In mainstream America, concepts such as joy, discovery and exhilaration are cooped by marketing strategies. Experience becomes imprisoned by products, stereotypes and labels. Some Children are marked so indelibly, they cannot venture forth without donning their favourite logo and prefabricated identity. Brands become both filter and lens for one’s point of view. This propagates a mesmerizing cycle of fashion and consumption and an artificial sense of progress. His drawings infiltrate this cycle and attempt to excise experience from commercial shackles.		Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo and received his BFA, MFA and PhD from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. One of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking Japanese artists, his work ranges from cartoony paintings and prints, to quasi-minimalist sculptures such as Inochi, to giant inflatable balloons, to performance events to factory-produced watches and T-shirts. Many know Takashi Murakami for making a $2.6 million diamond-encrusted coup with Pharrell Williams and producing album covers for Kanye West.
Paula Rego is a prolific painter and printmaker, and in earlier years was also a producer of collage work. Her most well known depictions of folk tales and images of young girls, made largely since 1990, seem to bring together the methods of painting and printmaking with an emphasis on strong and clearly drawn forms, in contrast to Rego’s earlier more lose style paintings. Some of Paula Rego’s most well known artworks include The Dance, The Family and The Maids.		Jamie Reid is a British artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists and is infamous for his acerbic brand of visual anarchy. Jamie Reid’s signature newspaper-cutting graphics have become synonymous with the spirit of British punk rock music, having appeared on seminal Sex Pistols’ punk records of the 1970s including Never Mind the Bollocks, Anarchy in the UK, Union Jack, God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant.
Barry Reigate’s works enshrine the most basic instincts of desire and horror. Reflective of the aggression and violence of working class stereotype, Reigate adopts a brash, ‘no-apologies’ attitude towards the levelling of cultural hierarchy. Using loaded signifiers, such as Mickey Mouse minstrels and the hedonistic decadence of 80s Memphis design, his work ironically revives the ethos of ‘primitivism’ and the edgy indulgence of the neo-geo period to construct darkly humorous parodies of today’s attitudes towards commodity, fetish, and cultural taboo.		William Tillyer‘s work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970. Admired by fellow artists and collectors, it has mystified critics, even those eager to praise him. Why does his work keep changing? Why does each new phase seem to contradict and undermine the last? Why doesn’t he establish a brand image and stick by it? Much of his art is about the beauty of the world, of landscapes, still life and buildings; it can also be sublimely beautiful in its use of colour, brushstrokes and pictorial constructions, or dramatic in its size and contrasts. His thoughts are about how art communicates as much as what.
Jack Vettriano OBE, often referred to as the ‘people’s painter’, is famous for his nostalgic, sentimental and mysterious paintings including The Singing Butler which sold at Sotheby’s in 2004 for £750,000. Jack Vettriano was born in Fife, Scotland, was the youngest of two children and left school at sixteen in order to pursue a career as a mining engineer. He discovered painting accidentally, as he received a set of watercolours from a girlfriend as a twenty first birthday present. Consequently, he decided to teach himself how to paint by studying and copying paintings from well known artists, enabling him to discover his own sense of style. Back to first page		Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Matt Straub reveals his deep nostalgia for the American West in his work. He has hitch-hiked across most of the West and hopped a few freight trains. Featured in Straub’s painting are the classic Western iconography images of cowboys, cowgirls, guns and horses. Straub’s paintings echo the period of transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and reference Hollywood Westerns as well as the comics and pulps of the 1940s-50s. The paintings’ graphic and illustrative narratives combine camp and caricatures inspired by Western pulp writers and illustrators, while varied surfaces resonate with influences from artists such as Willem De Kooning, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden.